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This Tiny Folio takes readers on a fascinating tour of New York City history - from the land of the Lenape to today's metropolis - as illustrated by some 250 diverse items from the incomparable collections of the Museum of the City of New York...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467108522Author Laura KepnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia Publishing (SC)Publisher Arcadia Publishing (SC)Weight(grams)...

How much of what we know about the history of the Old West is true? In this new book, author Michael Rutter looks at the legend and lore behind such notorious figures as Billy the Kid and Calamity Jane and the stories of famous gun fights and battles,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609491956Author Jolie Anderson GallagherFormat PaperbackPage Count 141Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 222mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467111713Author Edward J. BranleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 127Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm)...

The racialized and exoticized cult of Voodoo occupies a central place in the popular image of the Crescent City. But as Kodi A. Roberts argues in Voodoo and Power, the religion was not a monolithic tradition handed down from African ancestors to their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948742689Author Lee WeinerFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Belt PublishingPublisher Belt PublishingWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 188mm * 124mm *...

This new study offers a fresh interpretation of apartheid South Africa. Emerging out of the author's long-standing interests in the history of racial segregation, and drawing on a great deal of new scholarship, archival collections, and personal memoirs,...

More than forty million visitors per year travel to Sin City to visit the gambling mecca of the world. But gambling is only one part of the city's story. In this carefully documented history, Geoff Schumacher tracks the rise of Las Vegas, including its...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781540226914Author Karen DybisFormat HardbackPage Count 130Imprint History Press Library EditionsPublisher History Press Library EditionsWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416594833Author Judy PasternakFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Free PressPublisher Free PressWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 137mm * 23mm

The evolution of New York nightlife from the Gay Nineties through the Jazz Age was, as Lewis A. Erenberg shows, both symbol and catalyst of America's transition out of the Victorian period. Cabaret culture led the way to new styles of behavior and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467145619Author Francine PowersFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 150mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865345935Author Mabel Dodge LuhanFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Sunstone PressPublisher Sunstone PressWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Historians have often glorified eighteenth-century Virginia planters' philosophical debates about the meaning of American liberty. But according to Noeleen McIlvenna, the true exemplars of egalitarian political values had fled Virginia's plantation...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467141574Author Roger StolleFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 222mm *...

Well before the Jamestown settlers first sighted the Chesapeake Bay or the Mayflower reached the coast of Massachusetts, the first English colony in America was established on Roanoke Island. David Stick tells the story of that fascinating period in...

This new historical overview tells the dramatic story of the American West from its prehistory to the present. A narrative history, it covers the region from the North Dakota-to-Texas states to the Pacific Coast. This West has always been home to richly...

With its incessant fogs and infamously craggy coast, Maine has long been a bane of mariners. Scores of vessels and countless lives have been lost on its rocky shores. Taryn Plumb explores the tragic history of shipwrecks in Maine, focusing on a dozen...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816537105Author Myrriah GomezFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona PressWeight(grams) 363g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609490591Author Matthew R. LinderothFormat PaperbackPage Count 127Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 218gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802122308Author T D AllmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781597132121Author Dan CoonanFormat PaperbackPage Count 408Imprint Goose River PressPublisher Goose River PressWeight(grams) 517gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781931832212Author C B GlasscockFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Riverbend PublishingPublisher Riverbend Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467133005Author John GunsaulisFormat PaperbackPage Count 127Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 235mm...

The New England loggers and river drivers were a unique breed of men. Working with their axes and peaveys through Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont, they contributed mightily to the development of the United States. The daily life of the loggers was hard...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781455627271Author Lyle SaxonFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Pelican Publishing CompanyPublisher Pelican Publishing CompanyWeight(grams)...

The Fulton Fish Market stands out as an iconic New York institution. At first a neighborhood retail market for many different kinds of food, it became the nation's largest fish and seafood wholesaling center by the late nineteenth century. Waves of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400030705Author H. W. BrandsFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 488gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385152723Author Eliot WiggintonFormat PaperbackPage Count 510Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 524g

A comprehensive history of Alaska provides coverage of such topics as the area's native culture, its exploration and mountaineering, the mining rushes, its railroads and aviation, its military operations, the conservation versus development conflict, and...

For almost fifty years George Bird Grinnell's great work The Fighting Cheyennes has stood unrevised and virtually unchallenged as the definitive account of the struggles of the Cheyenne Indians to preserve their way of life. Now Donald J. Berthrong has...

The rich history behind Faulkner's imagined world Lafayette County, Mississippi, was the primary inspiration for what is arguably the most famous place in American fiction: William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County. Faulkner once explained that in his...

What is it about the city of New Orleans? History, location, and culture continue to link it to France while distancing it culturally and symbolically from the United States. This book explores the traces of French language, history, and artistic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626199323Author Sports Editor Mike GuardabascioFormat PaperbackImprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781634992343Author John M MulhouseFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint America Through TimePublisher America Through TimeWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953368027Author Alex B HillFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Belt PublishingPublisher Belt PublishingWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm) 206mm * 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467119030Author Alison FortierFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781595580726Author Studs TerkelFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint The New PressPublisher The New PressWeight(grams) 473g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063090767Author Imani PerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint HarperLuxePublisher HarperLuxeWeight(grams) 295g